“They are underpaid [and] overworked, and people are taking cheap shots at them,” Frank told POLITICO. “You’re seeing an arrogance and meanness and anger coming out that’s part of this anti-government effort. Then you see Republicans egging them on. It’s despicable behavior.”

“I deal with staffers all the time, and I do not think they are arrogant,” said Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.). “I saw one up recently at 3 a.m. I don’t know how they can work any harder.”

Boehner himself has been known to have a soft spot for his staffers, and he was visibly devastated this winter by the sudden death of his longtime chief of staff, Paula Nowakowski.

Spokesman Michael Steel said Boehner wasn’t talking about all staffers when he told a group of bankers not to let “those little punk staffers take advantage of you.”

“Congressional staff should treat every American citizen with respect. Clearly, Boehner was talking about any that don’t,” Steel said.

In a different political environment, current staffers might get some kind words from former staffers who are now running for Congress. But in an anti-incumbent, anti-Washington environment, the former staffers aren’t exactly racing to defend their own.

Jack Bailey, a former chief of staff who’s running for the Republican nomination in the race against Rep. Lincoln Davis (D-Tenn.), said he’s been away from Washington “long enough not to be part of the problem” and is promising to “bring a gun to a gunfight” if elected.

Princella Smith, a former aide to Rep. Anh “Joseph” Cao (R-La.) who’s now running for Congress in Arkansas, likewise says she’s been in Washington “long enough to see how certain legislation got pushed through and long enough to see that I didn’t like it.”

Still, she said the staffer-bashing is a “bad-apple issue.”

“There are some staffers that get so caught up in the fact that they work on Capitol Hill and the power in their positions. ... These isolated stories get a lot of media attention and perpetuate the image. Stuff like that is giving staffers a bad name.”

All of these school boy bully antics remind me of the civil rights struggle during the fifties and sixties. These same groups are at it again, only this time they're not being led by led by the Dixiecrats (Southern Dems) but their sons and daughters in today's Republican party.

* Sarah Palin posted a map on her Facebook page that had circles and cross hairs over 20 Democratic districts.

* Sarah Palin sent a tweet saying, "Don't Retreat, Instead - RELOAD!"

* Rep. Michele Bachmann: "I want people in Minnesota armed and dangerous….having a revolution every now and then is a good thing."

* Rep. John Boehner: "Take [Democratic Congressman] Steve Driehaus, for example. He may be a dead man. He can't go home to the west side of Cincinnati."

* Rep. Steve King: "Let's beat that other side to a pulp! Let's take them out. Let's chase them down."

The party of No, once again is using pages right out of the George W Bush playbook: Chapter 3, The Color Code of Fear; Chapter 13, Dimwitted Arrogance

Oh my, don't WE have a thin skin these days. They maybe expect compliments for taking our money by force, destroying our health care system, taking away our personal freedoms and replacing our democratic republic with a European-style socialism. These people shouldn't just be insulted, they should be jailed for the good fo the public.

Now how about the tea partiers being called Nazis, unruly mobs, unAmerican, gap-toothed inbreds. How about having union thugs beat up some of our senior citizens at town hall meetings? Any staffers had body parts bitten off like a tea party attendee did to a deranged Move-On wacko?

Look, if politics has become a VERY nasty business these days, it is only because the leftists made it that way. For years they have been getting increasingly violent. And now we have a genuine thug in the white house with his "Get in their face", "If they bring a knife, we bring a gun" and "If they want a fight, bring it on".

My prediction is that things are going to get a lot nastier before they get any better. They've sown the wind and the reaping the whirlwing part has only just begun.

AWWW the poor babys can't handle it. They conspire to beat the rules and cram things down the throats of the public and can't take the verbal abuse they earned, Harry said it best " If you can't take the heat then get out". Don't worry too much, come Nov. both you and your boss will be out of a job.

When are people going to stop being suprised at Boner's outlandish comments? He clearly has a hard on for the President and is committed to not being supportive of any legislation up for debate but he can't figure out how to do it without the need to be insulting. As is often the case with bullies (and mediocre politicians) the need to rely on making outlandish comments in order to get attention. Would it be nice it the congressman actually had an original thought to contribute from time to time? You betcha! Can we plan on anything soon? HELL NO!

Didn't take long for the socialist Democrats to bring out the race card this morning. Sick bunch and that's one reason why the congressional democrats will lose this coming Nov. The American people are no longer buying the DNC painting of anyone who disagrees with their agenda as being racist.

The GOP is about done. They'll certainly stink up the place on the way out, though. But what's left are the maggots crawling out of the rotting corpse in the form of teabaggers. Nasty, racist, greedy little conservatives without any real leaders.

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You and the rest of your liberal friends and Obamanistas better wake up and smell the coffee, friend. Every poll shows the numbers dropping further every day in terms of presidential job approval, democrat party approval (below the republican), health care, you name it. Rather than being on the way out, not only is the republican party resurging, but the so-called tea party activists, which you and your ilk are obviously so frightened by, are leading the surge. Yours is a typical rant; all vitriol and no substance, and certainly no connection to reality. Let's see just how many dumbocrats are slinking back under their "progressive" rocks after November.

Aw, imagine that, the poor nomenklatura doesn't feel appreciated by the private sector they are waging war against - destroying businesses, lives, and future opportunities with their runaway control freak regulation, legislation, spending, and arrogance.

“Taking offense” – that is one things the Democrats do well, very well. In fact, that is all they did during the debate over health care. Debate facts? - Never! Throw around insults? - Every day! No wonder they are now known as those ‘despicable’ Democrats.

I'm sure there are some aides who are idealistic and try to do the right thing but with the arrogance of the representatives they work for toward the American people over the last year, it is completely believable that they are just the same. I have absolutely no respect for the Washington establishment and can't wait for the opportunity in November to boot them all out. Maybe we will get more of the same but then I will boot them out too. No more of this crap that they pull; they need to be held accountable. They work for the American people, not the other way around. I will NEVER forget what they pulled no matter what happens with the economy, jobs, anything. The end does not justify the means and the disrespect shown to the American people was indefensible. This independent can't wait for the opportunity to show them the door.

Distasteful at the minimum and just downright insulting at the max, Boehner should apologize before the house to ALL the staffers who work the trenches from sun up through sundown. God forbid a member of congress do the work him/herself! "these " little punk staffers" are the folks who do 99% of the work in congress and lets not kid ourselves, these congress folk would have trouble finding the bathrooms in the building if it were not for some staffer pointing them in the right direction. Boehner is all in a tither because the staffers are the real workhorses behind the passage of the health care bill and he knows that. That is exactly why he lashed out at them. For him to now insult the very folks who do ALL of HIS work too, is demeaning and he needs to apologize. They have taken enough abuse from these jerks. Don't hold your breath, you'd have better success if you waited for Boehner to lose his tan than to have him right his wrong. I'd say Boehner was a piece of work but that would be a contradiction in terms now wouldn't it?

You and the rest of your liberal friends and Obamanistas better wake up and smell the coffee, friend.

The socialist liberals did that. They started their own version of the TEA Party with the Coffee Party. Supposedly held a movement in 360 cities a few weeks ago and been reported the stench still lingers.

Although nearly 2,000 House staffers earn six-figure salaries, most Hill aides make relatively little, and many worked repeated 80-hour weeks during the height of the health care debate — living on too little sleep and too many meals from office vending machines.

Ever see what our Combat Arms troops go through during an average week, even during peace time? Ever see what life is like for them living out in the field?

I think the American people are less than impressed or sympathetic with these poor little smarmy "inside the beltway warriors" having to work a little bit extra every now and then and must suffer the inconvenience of having to, to, oh the horror, get a snack from an office vending machine!"all

There are people starving around the world and you are gonna sit here and complain about having to the ability to get something to eat? Heck look at how bad life sucks in Haiti. Or most nations in Africa. Obama's brother lives in a shack.

And here you little crybaby Democrats sit here in front of the American people sucking your thumbs and bawling again. The American people are about fed up with you smug, arrogant, overpaid twerps in this government.

I know this is about legisalative staffers, but it's also about Republicans, and it's time to fight back.

It's time for people in all government bureaucracies to pounce on every insult from the anti-government GOP. How long will these good people doing good work for nominal pay allow themselves to be portrayed as incompetent and overpaid, at best.

I don't know why the unions or employees themselves don't take to the streets - organize every government worker in this country to vote for legislators who respect their local, state, and federal government, and its employees Start a campaign to show how much better government does the job, whether in processing health care claims or delivering mail, not to mention the military.